Young people prefer an Internet connection to daylight

Technically Incorrect: A UK survey suggests that daylight isn't all that -- at least in young people's enlightened minds. Neither is hot water. But they do love the idea of more followers on social media.

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I prefer to think that, with the advent of all-powerful gadgets, our instincts and priorities are simply changing.

I know this because of another result from the survey that made my heart pour grief. A fulsome 14 percent of these young respondents believed that the one change that would improve their lives would be "having a bigger following on social media."

It seems quite obvious what sort of daylight more Twitter followers can bring.

It makes you feel like someone, rather than a no one ululating into a vacuum. It's a source of approval, respect and, who knows, money.

Honestly, what's daylight ever done for us, except for forcing us to wake up when we don't want to, and exposing all our flaws?

Mother Nature has never been kind to the young. Now, at least, they've found a replacement.